[Milsurplus] computer expert needed

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Tony,

I work with TIF's almost every day, as that's what I do all the manual 
scanning to, instead of PDF's which cannot be cleaned up.  Windows NT and 2000 
both shipped with a good basic TIF viewer and editor, originally called Wang 
Image, then Kodak Image.  When XP came out, Microsoft, in its infinite 
stupidity, quit shipping Imaging and assigned IE as the default TIF viewer.  IE 
can open multi-page TIF's but can't see beyond the first page, which is 
probably why you can now only see the first page.  Imaging (a commercial program) 
was improved through several versions while belonging to Kodak.  And was 
then sold (or maybe the department or division of Kodak that handled it was 
sold) to eiStream Technologies, which took it through one or two more version 
updates before I lost track of them or maybe they morphed into a different 
industry after 2003.  Anyway, the last version, AFAIK, was 2.8.  It runs fine 
under W2K and XP.

There are several other programs around that can read multi-page TIF's.  
But some can't properly handle a TIF that has been compressed (like 
Irfanview), so the images look awful.  Adobe Acrobat will import a multipage 
compressed TIF and view it OK.  And it will save it to a PDF, which next time, the 
Adobe viewer will open.  If you already have a fairly recent version of 
Acrobat, that might be your best bet.  Convert the files to PDF.

Alternatively, you can find and install the version of Imaging that shipped 
with W2K.  It runs fine under XP.  I've sent it to three or four people.  

In a message dated 11/13/2009 6:26:09 PM Central Standard Time, 
trsnider at cox.net writes: 
> Hello,
> I have some electronic manuals for a receiver system I am trying to get 
> going and I cannot get them to open correctly.  I got them to open correctly 
> yrs ago on a different computer but can only get the title page now.  a 
> friend of mine was able to get them to open on his computer but of course he 
> is in Ca. and I am in Va. the files came from the manufacture of the units. 
> they are .tif format anyone out there got any ideas?? I can email these if 
> anyone wants to give it a shot?? is there some special soft ware I need or 
> can someone convert them to PDF. happy to pay for the service
> Thanks
> Tony

Robert Downs - Houston
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